Moms, what keeps you up at night?

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yup i wake up couple times a night cause i worry about my children. that someone will get into our house and now a days you cant trust people around your kids. when i wake up its to check on my daughters and sons and i carry my 4 month son around when i do my rounds and plus to feed him. yup he is breast and bottle. cause i work

I have two Boys, one is 7 & the other is 21months. I would have pick 2 to 4 if it would have that option. 1. Economics 2. Education 3. worrying my child will be picked or not have friends. 4. Who will run this country. These are biggest right now for me, but I know I can pray about it & that gives me some peace.

My number one fear, and it hasn't changed from the time I gave birth to both my children, is the fear of drug abuse. I just prey both my kids will get past the dreaded teenage years without getting involved with drugs and "the wrong crowd". If someone has the answer to this please share!!!

What I fear most is my child being exposed to people who smoke, drink, and use drugs, and the effects that being around these people will have on my child's ideas about substance abuse. As an example, my husband's best friend, who also has been assigned my child's "godfather," has a history of heavy social alcohol use, a history of marijuana use, and a history of hard drug use in a social setting. Though the man seems to be decent, holds a good job, has some good ethics, I worry that his lax viewpoints on alcohol use, social drug use/partying, may somehow be communicated, even nonverbally or nondirectly, to my son at some point down the road. I don't want my son to see this as an acceptable, or even normal way to carry on throughout his adulthood. Some adults have criticized me saying that I am overreacting, that it's normal for people to drink, even experiment with drugs at some point in their lives. But many have never even touched a cigarette, and I wish that for him.

My daughter is 2.5 years old, and I worry about predators, kidnappers, murders, evil people who do evil things....I just want to protect my daughter, and shield her from all the evil in the world. The fear that someone could hurt or attack my daughter scares me the most. We can only do so much to protect our little ones.

I can't protect my toddler from her father. The courts don't care. The father's right for equal time with her are most important. his has a likely mental condition (genetic) according to the prior psych. alas, he snowed a specialist assigned for the court. Now it looks like I must have been insane for proposing an assessment since the original psych's notes had to be suppressed to keep the other psych unbiased. Does this seem right? How do I protect a child from weird court rules? She's too little to protect herself.

My child is only 2.5 years old. Maybe I'm overly paranoid, but I'm terrified that he will get involved with drugs and/or alcohol when he becomes a teenager. From what I hear, this problem is very prevalent - even at the 'best' schools.

I also feel protective of all kids and I hate hearing any news reports about bad things happening to kids. What really scares me is seeing kids riding on the main road on their pedal bikes with no helmets, no accompanying adult and no traffic skills to speak of. Yikes.

We try our best to raise our children and give them the proper education to face the world. Proper training and educating them are essential to prevent from getting hurt. I believe that doing our best to teach them how to deal with life and to know the dangers and then leave everything else to god.

I can't stand anything bad happening to anybody's children. I feel like putting protective bubbles around them all until they're 18. Lol! Though, my biggest fear with my daughter is her getting hurt.. Or her in a fire, I see all these children dying on the news and I cry everytime I see it since I can't do anything about it. Though I do have a really messed up, unrealistic fear of a zombie apocolypse.. It keeps me up at night, worrying about how I'd protect her and if anything happened to my husband or myself.. How could she or any other child defend itself? But thats probably just a hidden fear of children getting hurt.. in pain and confused. Ugh. Anyways.. rant over.

Right now we have a terrible pest problem in our home (spiders and scorpions) and I am afraid our kids will get stung/bit by something that will land them in the hospital. Small children can tolerate a scorpion sting as well as adults.

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